To emphasize Steve's point: Look at how day trading affects the stock market. It's a game of psychology. Do we want to start trading election futures?
-- William Sutton On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pat Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >If you can make voting easy enough that people can do it from home would > >bring us to the point where we it would be possible to have a direct, > >instead of a representative, democracy. Election day could be every day. > > How much time did you spend, for the most recent once-every-four-years > vote researching the #1 issue in that election? How about the #2 issue? > > I'd see the 'election day every day' world as either a world where no one > bothers > to research anything before firing off a vote or a world paralyzed by an > electorate that pases laws today based on the color of Katie Couric's blouse > and rescinds them tomorrow on the forecast of light rain.. > > It's perhaps worth study, but I'll venture not likely to happen in my > lifetime. > > > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
